LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE decision of the federal government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to introduce the cashless policy in January, 2012, with Lagos serving as the pilot scheme, was no doubt, without the usual mixed feelings. While many Nigerians were in bed with the apex bank’s position that the policy would go…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have vowed to drag the federal government to court over approval of a 50 percent increase in calls, data, and other telecommunication tariffs. In an instant multiplier effect, Point of Sales Operators have hinted at plans to increase their service charges. The President of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers, Adeolu…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Thursday warned the Point-of-Sales (POS) operators in the country to stop selling naira notes and remove excessive charges to customers nationwide immediately. This is even as the House mandated the Committees on Banking Regulations and Digital and Electronic Banking to invite the Minister of Finance and National…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another Nollywood actor has been a victim of the country’s increasing insecurity, which has reached such alarming levels that even our mansions and top stars are no longer safe. Actor Saka in Nollywood claims that on Monday night, armed men broke into his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Saka is a veteran…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old pastor, Ndifreke Udo Amos, has been arrested by operatives of the FIB Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) for allegedly helping a kidnap gang in the abduction of an 80-year-old man, Pa Anthony Ugbuzor Idornigie. The octogenarian victim was said to be sitting in his house at No 7, Garage Street, Itoki,…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The usual high patronage of Point of Sale (PoS) services in the country is in reverse trend as bank customers now resort to Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and other channels like online banking, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), among others. In the heat of COVID-19, last year, banks and other financial companies…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Ogun State has arrested three of its mobile officers who reportedly extorted one Hezekiah Oluwaponmile, a student of the Lagos State University (LASU), of the sum of N153,000. The cops, attached to PMF16, were identified as Inspector Sunday John with AP/NO. 310332; Sergeant Jimoh Asimiya with F/NO. 447461 and…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For about two years, Chizoba Ede hawked snacks around Lugbe, Abuja to raise funds she invested in second-hand cloth trading. Considering her humble beginning, raising N60, 000 to start the ‘okirika’ business by the roadside in Otako Market, Jabi, was a big dream come true in June 2018. She worked hard and…